NOTES ON COLOR (THEORY)
LINKS and BOOKS and RESOURCES... OH, MY!
LIGHT, ENERGY & COLOR
PHYSICS
Four forces in nature
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980127c.html
Electromagnetic spectrum
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/emspectrum.html
What is color?
http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr1/en/proj/basic/color/whatiscolor.asp
Physics of Light and Color
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/lightandcolor/index.html
How does light travel?
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/how-does-light-travel.html
What is a wave?
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/waves/Lesson-1/What-is-a-Wave
Color wavelengths
http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/EDDOCS/Wavelengths_for_Colors.html
Wave behaviors
http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/03_behaviors.html
Newton’s Prism Experiment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uucYGK_Ymp0
Diffraction
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/diffraction/
Blue skies and red sunsets
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/light/Lesson-2/Blue-Skies-and-Red-Sunsets
Light Absorption, Reflection, and Transmission
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/light/Lesson-2/Light-Absorption,-Reflection,-and-Transmission
James Turrell
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/en/
Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio
http://www.caravaggio-foundation.org/
PROJECTS
How to do Super Cool Light-Bending Prism Photos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3YpiFCGZRY
How a Prism Works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGqsi_LDUn0&list=PLm7Jw_B4XtDFC7AmuIiQc01LYnVys-c89
Captured. A Homage to Air and Light
HUMAN EYES SEE COLOR
Biology
Visible Light and the Eye’s Response
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/light/u12l2b.cfm
How does the eye see color?
http://www.ehow.com/video_4984757_the-eye-see-color.html
Trichromatic theory
http://www.intropsych.com/ch04_senses/theories_of_color_vision.html
Hermann von Helmholtz
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hermann-helmholtz/
Color vision deficiencies
Afterimage exercise
Analysis of pigment color change using Van Gogh’s The Bedroom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZqLVQAy8rc&feature=youtu.be
World Color Survey
http://www.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/site/9781575864150.shtml
Synesthesia
Wassily Kandinsky
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/3182
ILLUMINATING COLORS
Human vision and color perception
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/lightandcolor/humanvisionintro.html
Discovery YAFI – Colours of Light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbxy1W9O_Wk
Light and Color. Bill Nye the Science Guy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtgBHsSzCPE
Additive color mixing
http://www.exploratorium.edu/xref/exhibits/colored_shadows.html
Mystery of Magenta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPPYGJjKVco
Pantone
Pigment supplier
Artists pigment supplier
Photosynthetic pigments
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss3/pigments.html
Light sources
http://sarspec.com/products/light-sources/
LED lighting
http://www.gelighting.com/LightingWeb/emea/products/technologies/led/lighting/
Lamps
http://www.gelighting.com/LightingWeb/emea/products/lamps/index.jsp
Spectural Power Distribution Curves
http://www.gelighting.com/na/business_lighting/spectral_power_distribution_curves/
International Commission on Illumination
http://www.cie.co.at/index.php/LEFTMENUE/index.php?i_ca_id=298
Color matching
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178/applets/colormatching.html
Color rendering index
https://www.lightingdesignlab.com/color-rendering
CIE Special Metamerism Index
http://div1.cie.co.at/?i_ca_id=551&pubid=27
Metamerism
http://www.hunterlab.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Metamerism-Index.pdf
Claude Monet
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cmon/hd_cmon.htm
Edward Hopper
Wes Anderson
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jan/31/wes-anderson-worlds/
PROJECTS
High-Speed Powder Photography Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU7-hgfRy_g
Light Painting/Sculptures by Terrance Hounsell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoCekwLhgN0
C.I.E Color Space
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/cie.html
Color Space Confusion
http://dot-color.com/2012/08/14/color-space-confusion/
COLOR NAMES & CLASSIFICATIONS
World Color Survey
http://www.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/site/9781575864150.shtml
Words for colors
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/colour.htm
Color term
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term
List of colors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors:_A%E2%80%93F
Online Color Thesaurus
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Nathan_Moroney/color-thesaurus.html
Color Difference Description Experiment
thttp://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Nathan_Moroney/cdd-hpl.html
Color naming survey
http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Fun/ColorPerception
Paint color names
http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/for-your-home/color-gallery#&ce_vm=0&ce_x=16&ce_y=7
Pantone
Munsell color systems and information
Hexadecimal system
http://homepage.smc.edu/morgan_david/cs40/hex-system.html
HTML Color
Web safe colors
Web safe colors
http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/python/websafe.html
Henri Matisse
COLOR THEORIES
Essential Sources
Munsell
http://munsell.com/color-blog/color-psychology-medicine-jill-morton/
https://www.rit.edu/cos/colorscience/ab_munsell_diaries.php
Introduction to color theory (Trichomatic theory)
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178/applets/locus.html
Brown University research applets on color theory
http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/research/exploratory/freeSoftware/catalogs/color_theory.html
http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs092/VA10/HTML/start.html
Miscellaneous Sources
Color wheels and research on color systems by an artist
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/colorwheel.htm
Historic color wheels. Melborne University sponsored blog.
http://meanjin.com.au/blog/post/colour-wheels/
Color theory explained on Wikipedia – see references for sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory
Color theory explained by an architect and web designer
http://www.worqx.com/color/itten.htm
Herman Miller ( furniture company) explains color
http://www.hermanmiller.com/hm/content/research_summaries/pdfs/wp_Experience_of_Color.pdf
The Science of Color by Steven K. Shevell (Google book)
http://books.google.com/books?id=-fNJZ0xmTFIC&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false
Historiography of Color and Perceiving
http://www.apass.be/apt.php?cwPage=browse%2Fprojectpage&cwProject=3&cwContent=201
Stuart Davis
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/152835/Stuart-Davis
Paul Rand
ARTFUL INSPIRATIONS
Aristotle. De Coloribus
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Aristotle/de_Coloribus*.html
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb.html
The Craftsman's Handbook. The Italian "Il Libro dell' Arte."
http://www.noteaccess.com/Texts/Cennini/2.htm
Leonardo da Vinci. Battle of Anghiari
http://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/foodog82/paint/paintcomp.html
http://www.academia.edu/1773571/Leonardo_as_a_link_from_Classical_to_Modern_Theory
List of color palettes. Wikpedia. See references.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_palettes
Paul Cezanne
Pierre Bonnard
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bonn/hd_bonn.htm
Vincent van Gogh
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gogh/hd_gogh.htm
Piet Mondrian
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_mondrianpiet.htm
Louise Fili
Luba Lukova
El Lissitzky
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/el-lissitzky-1519
Projects
Dulux: Let’s Color Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGOQNGkpxko
INTERACTIONS OF COLOR
Simutaneous contrast examples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnVhD-ke9Qg
Optical color interactions
http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/color-e.html
Bezold effects
http://www.bu.edu/lite/lite1/color/vonbezold/index.html
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
COMPOSING WITH COLORS
Rudolf Arnheim
http://www.bobolinkbooks.com/Arnheim/Home.html
http://www.soziales.fh-dortmund.de/diederichs/arnheim.htm
Gestalt Principles
http://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/tutorials/process/gestaltprinciples/gestaltprinc.htm
http://www.interactiondesign.org/encyclopedia/gestalt_principles_of_form_perception.html
Paula Scher
Jules Olitsky
http://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/past/revelation-major-paintings-jules-olitski/
Gail Anderson
CULTURAL AND EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS
Bob Vila on historic paint
http://www.bobolinkbooks.com/Arnheim/Home.html
http://www.bobvila.com/articles/2240-historic-paint-colors/#.U5KjyS-d47A
About pink. Commercial website on color
http://www.webmd.com/women/home-health-and-safety-9/color-psychology
What’s Red and Blue and Litigated All Over?
http://cblr.columbia.edu/archives/11863
Using Color Psychology in the home
http://www.webmd.com/women/home-health-and-safety-9/color-psychology
List of colors used by well-known brands:
The Design and Emotion Society
http://www.designandemotion.org/en/about-us/our-board.html
Men in pink. News story from the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8401742.stm
Emotional Reactions to Color by Kathy Lamancusa, trend strategist
http://www.creativelatitude.com/articles/articles_lamacusa_color.html
Colour psychology and colour therapy: Caveat emptor (2011). Zena O’Connor
http://www.academia.edu/590819/Colour_psychology_and_colour_therapy_Caveat_emptor_2011_
Visual and Instrumental Evaluation of Orange Juice Color
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-459X.2011.00360.x/abstract
Investigation of Human Emotional Responses on Colors
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/col.20246/abstract
Psychological Properties Of Colours
http://www.colour-affects.co.uk/psychological-properties-of-colours
Pablo Picasso
Milton Glaser
SELECTED ORGANIZATIONS & INSTITUTIONS
Organizations
Association Internationale de la Couleur
C.I.E
http://www.cie.co.at/index.php/LEFTMENUE/index.php?i_ca_id=298
Color Association of the United States
http://www.colorassociation.com/
Colorcom, color consultants
Color Marketing Group
http://www.colormarketing.org/
Detroit Color Council
Exploratorium, San Francisco
Exploratorium Projects (search "color")
http://www.exploratorium.edu/afterschool/activities/index.php?activity=172
Flux Data – delivering knowledge from light
International Colour Association
http://www.colourforecasting.com/home
International Color Consortium
http://www.color.org/index.xalter
Inter Society Color Council
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
Pantone
Rochester Institute of Technology
http://www.rit.edu/programs/color-science-0
Night vision - Army
http://www.cerdec.army.mil/inside_cerdec/nvesd/
Museums
Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
http://www.corcoran.org/index.php
Hermitage, Russia
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html
High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Louvre, Paris, France
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Museum of Modern Art, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb.html
The Getty, CA
Rijksmuseum, Netherlands
Tate, UK
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Victoria & Albert, London
Walker, Minneapolis, MN
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
ART & SCIENCE SUPPLIES
Diffraction grating
http://www.novatech-usa.com/DFG525-pk-5?gclid=CM_S4LvgjLwCFahj7Aodgh8A2g
Blick Art Supplies
Jerry's Artarama
http://www.jerrysartarama.com/art-supplies/
Utrecht Art
Wet Paint Art
Custom Lightsaber Supplies
http://www.thecustomsabershop.com
BOOKS
Albers, Josef. Interaction of Color. New Haven: Yale Universtiy Press, 1963.
Batchelor, David. Chromophobia. London: Reaktion Books, 2000.
Birren, Faber. Color Psychology and Color Therapy First Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1950.
Birren, Faber. Light, Color, and Environment. Chicago: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1969.
Bothwell, Dorr. Notan: The Light-Dark Principle of Design. New York: Reinhold Book Corporation, 1968.
Butler Greenfield, Amy. A Perfect Red. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006.
Chiarello, Mark, and Todd Klein. The DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2004.
Delamare, Francois, and Bernard Guineau. English Translation, Sarah Hawkes, Colors: The Story of Dyes And Pigments. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000.
Eiseman, Leatrice. Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color. Sarasota, FL: Grafix Press, 2000.
Findlay, Victoria. Color, A Natural History of the Palette. New York: Random House, 2004.
Gage, John. Color and Culture, Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.
Hope, Augustine and Margaret Walch. The Color Compendium. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.
Itten, Johannes. The Art of Color. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1961.
Itten, Johannes. The Elements of Color. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1961.
Kueppers, Harald. The Basic Law of Color Theory. New York: Barron's, 1982.
Lanchner, Carolyn, editor. Paul Klee. New York: Little Brown, 1987.
Landa, Robin. Graphic Design Solutions. 5th ed. Stamford: Cengage Learning, 2013. Print.
Legrand, Catherine. Indigo, The Color that Changed the World. London: Thames & Hudson, 2012.
Lidwell, William, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler. Universal Principles of Design. Beverly, MA: Rockport, 2010.
Lynton, Norbert, and Paul Klee. Klee. London: Spring, 1964.
Mahnke, Frank. Color, Environment, and Human Response. Detroit: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1996.
Mehl, Richard. Playing with Color: 50 Graphic Experiments for Exploring Color Design Principles. Beverly, MA: Rockport, 2013.
Meggs, Philip, B., Alston W. Purvis, and Philip B. Meggs. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 012.
Maerz, A. and M. Rea Paul. A Dictionary of Color, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950.
Miller, Mary C. Color in Interior Architecture. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997.
Munsell, Albert. Munsell Grammar of Color. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1969.
Pile, John. Color in Interior Design. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.
Pastoureau, Michael. Black, The History of a Color. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Rand, Paul. Design Form and Chaos. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.
Riley, Charles A. Color Codes, Modern Theories of Color in Philosophy, Painting and Architecture, Literature, Music, and Psychology. London: University Press of New England, 1995.
Stewart, Jude. ROYGBIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Swirnoff, Lois. Dimensional Color. Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 1989.
Theroux, Alexander. The Primary Colors. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.
Theroux, Alexander. The Secondary Colors. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.
Vedlich, Josep., The Prints of The Ten Bamboo Studio. New York: Crescent Books, Crown Publishers, 1979.
A SELECTED GLOSSARY
http://tigger.uic.edu/~hilbert/Glossary.html